Children & Youth

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How Courts Treat Social Media as a Defective Product Technology

How Courts Treat Social Media as a Defective Product

A legal revolution is underway as courts apply traditional product liability law to social media platforms, treating addictive design features like in...

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How Lead Poisoning Works—and Why No Level Is Safe Health

How Lead Poisoning Works—and Why No Level Is Safe

Lead tricks the body by mimicking calcium, slipping past the blood-brain barrier and disrupting neuron signaling. Here's how this ancient metal still...

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How Autism and ADHD Overlap in the Brain Science

How Autism and ADHD Overlap in the Brain

Up to 70% of people with autism also have ADHD. New brain-imaging and genetic research reveals why these two conditions so often travel together—and w...

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Prague Handball Cup: City Hosts 3,000 Matches from Around the World Sport

Prague Handball Cup: City Hosts 3,000 Matches from Around the World

Prague becomes a hub for youth handball over Easter as the 33rd Prague Handball Cup welcomes over 800 teams from 24 countries to more than 50 venues a...

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Jury Finds Meta, YouTube Liable in Social Media Trial Culture

Jury Finds Meta, YouTube Liable in Social Media Trial

A California jury found Meta and YouTube liable on all counts in a landmark social media addiction trial, awarding $6 million in damages to a young wo...

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How Social Media Rewires the Teenage Brain Science

How Social Media Rewires the Teenage Brain

Social media exploits a window of extreme neurological vulnerability in adolescents, hijacking dopamine pathways and reshaping brain structures involv...

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What Are PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' and Why They Matter Health

What Are PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' and Why They Matter

PFAS are a class of over 10,000 man-made chemicals that resist breakdown in the body and environment, linked to cancer, hormone disruption, and — acco...

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How ADHD Works: The Brain Science Behind Attention Health

How ADHD Works: The Brain Science Behind Attention

ADHD is far more than a lack of willpower — it is a neurodevelopmental condition rooted in measurable differences in brain chemistry, structure, and e...

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How Melatonin Works—and Is It Safe for Kids? Health

How Melatonin Works—and Is It Safe for Kids?

Melatonin supplements have become one of the most popular sleep aids for children, but scientists warn that enthusiasm is outpacing the evidence. Here...

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Czech Republic Appoints First Children's Ombudsman: Martin Beneš Culture

Czech Republic Appoints First Children's Ombudsman: Martin Beneš

On March 6, 2026, the Czech Parliament elected Martin Beneš, a guardianship judge from Most, as the country's first Children's Ombudsman. The new inde...

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Nepal's Gen Z Election: RSP Sweeps, Ending Decades of Elite Rule Culture

Nepal's Gen Z Election: RSP Sweeps, Ending Decades of Elite Rule

Balendra Shah's Rastriya Swatantra Party is headed for a historic parliamentary landslide in Nepal's first election since the 2025 Gen Z uprising that...

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Why Teens Need More Sleep—and Why They Don't Get It Health

Why Teens Need More Sleep—and Why They Don't Get It

Adolescents need 8–10 hours of sleep per night, yet most get far less. Biology, school schedules, and technology conspire against them—with serious co...

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